Friday, March 13, 2009

Pi Day

Tomorrow is one of those days we math geeks love--it's Pi Day, 3/14. Those darned chemistry geeks get two Avogadro's Days, 6/02 and 10/23, but Pi Day is more well known, more popular. Ours even gets write-ups at CNN, but neither Avogadro's Day does. So we're cooler.

Someone with much more talent and much more time on her hands than I have has rewritten the lyrics to that early 70's classic American Pie. It's very well done. The chorus:

So why, why can’t I calculate piI just want to see the numbers 3.1415And if that’s all, then let’s keep it alive‘Cause my calculator seems to have died.My calculator seems to have died.

I only heard about Pi day a couple of years ago.I wonder who first made the connection popular?I don't remember it at all from when I was a kid.My son's Math Field day team was called the Prado View Πrates.I loved that name.